A great day for Britain

[DodgyAgent]

Your very keen to blather on about the benefits of free markets, yet when people embrace them you mock them for it.

I provide a service, people pay for it. I have a few good customers and spend time touting for business when I have free capacity. How is that not a small business? Why is it that because the service is related to IT it's somehow qualitatively different than decorating, or plumbing, or accountancy? Is it because you find computers confusing?

Until you have to meet a regular payroll, embrace the legalities of emplying people you will never begin to understand what "having a business" is really like. Building a porn site and sharing some of the revenues with a couple of other contractors occasionally is not a business. It s a tax dodge.

[sasguru]

Your very keen to blather on about the benefits of free markets, yet when people embrace them you mock them for it.

I provide a service, people pay for it. I have a few good customers and spend time touting for business when I have free capacity. How is that not a small business? Why is it that because the service is related to IT it's somehow qualitatively different than decorating, or plumbing, or accountancy? Is it because you find computers confusing?

It's nothing to do with IT. A small business employs other people, has many non-consecutive clients, and contributes to the environment around it in some way mainly by providing jobs.
A sole trader doesn't qualify as a small business to my mind. In actual fact most IT contractors get away with paying less tax and so contribute less to society.

[doodab]

Building a porn site and sharing some of the revenues with a couple of other contractors occasionally is not a business. It s a tax dodge.

Technically it was an adult dating site, not a porn site.

[sasguru]

Not at all. It's more a case of "if I can have a decent standard of living then why shouldn't everybody", and when you look at it objectively a system that works to concentrate wealth in the hands of the already wealthy is a big part of the problem.

You've steadfastly avoided the issue: you're not creating wealth because you don't have the creativity to create a real business.
HTH

[DodgyAgent]

Technically it was an adult dating site, not a porn site.

the wifes in Aberdeen does it do dates by the hour?

[doodab]

the wifes in Aberdeen does it do dates by the hour?

It's not going any more. There are plenty of others out there though. You want to get yourself on toyboy warehouse.

[DodgyAgent]

It's not going any more. There are plenty of others out there though. You want to get yourself on toyboy whorehouse.

FTFY

[AtW]

I'd love to comment but I am too busy with work stuff today.

HTH

[doodab]

You've steadfastly avoided the issue: you're not creating wealth because you don't have the creativity to create a real business.
HTH

It takes more than "creativity" to create a business and make it successful. You also need opportunity, talent and hard work. It's no wonder you decided to go permie.

[sasguru]

It takes more than "creativity" to create a business and make it successful. You also need opportunity, talent and hard work. It's no wonder you decided to go permie.

I work for a startup and a big part of my compensation is equity

HTH